Known issue: Unexpected reference counts with Imports

Fix

Anneliese, Community Manager

Covidence had an intense hiccup!

Some imports have been behaving very strangely, multiplying references within the file upon import. This will result in wildly unexpected reference counts -- 5000 studies imported from a file only containing 2200 references.

The underlying problem causing this has been corrected, and we are continuing to check and double check to make sure this doesn't happen again!

Votes re-appearing

Fix

Anneliese, Community Manager

It was brought to our team's attention that occasionally when voting, studies would re-appear in the voting queue with the previously cast vote greyed out.

Super annoying!

Luckily our fabulous tech team has done some tweaking to make this problem go away. So you can keep on voting at your amazingly high speeds without worries and without having to refresh your page all the time.

Deleting custom tags!

Improvement

Anneliese, Community Manager

Did a few members of your team get a little too tag-happy? Did you make a typo when you added a tag? Fear no more, you can now delete those pesky superfluous tags from your settings page!

From your review dashboard, click on Settings, then on Study tags. You won't be able to delete the pre-populated tags (i.e. Awaiting classification and Ongoing study), but all others can be deleted from this page. You can also easily add tags from here!

We're hiring! Community manager

New

Ready to be a Covidence user champion? Covidence is seeking to grow our user engagement and support team with a North American based Community Manager. For further details and to apply: http://bit.ly/2ifBldq. Referrals and direct applications also welcome hello@covidence.org

Templating of custom text fields

Improvement

We have good news - now when you add a custom text field to your review template form in Data Extraction this field will copy across to all newly opened forms!

Delete a PDF

Improvement

You can now delete a PDF without the need to first upload a second one - Hooray!

Display of duplicates detected by Covidence

Improvement

You ask, we listen! We're excited to show you the first in a series of changes we are making to the way in which you can view and manage the duplicates detected by Covidence.

You'll notice now that we display several additional fields: journal, year and page numbers.

You can also view all duplicates detected in the file, as opposed to ten at time, with those most recently detected at the top of your list.

View the progress of your current import as well as a list of your previous imports from your review dashboard

Improvement

Fasten your seat belt and get ready to experience one of the many changes that are happening to our Importer. Now you'll notice that when you import a file of citations, you're redirected to your review dashboard where you can see the progress of your import in real time. You can also view the list of previous imports here.

New location of import and export tools

New

We’ve expanded the import tool and moved the export tool.

Now you can view previous imports and import new files directly from your review dashboard.

This is only the beginning of some exciting changes that we are making to our importer. Please continue to watch this space for more updates!